Although the Dec. 15 enrollment deadline for health coverage through the public exchange system has barely passed, tea leaf readers are releasing forecasts about how many Americans will purchase coverage in 2015 based on the activity.

Among them: consulting firm Avalere Health, which has been crunching data related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and spitting out forecasts and analyses for some time now.

Avalere predicted Tuesday that, by the end of 2015, some 10.5 million Americans will have purchased coverage via the exchanges. That's good news for the Obama administration; it had estimated that slightly more than 9 million would opt for coverage. However, it's less than the 13 million projected by the Congressional Budget Office. In 2014, 6.7 million got coverage via the exchanges.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.

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